Who are you and where do you come from: By understanding and developing compassion for each other’s family history, possible history of addiction or abuse in family of origin, family communication patterns and other themes you will be able to avoid or minimize triggers and conflict in your daily life together.

Getting to know you even better: You may be aware that you have different ways of coping with emotional stress and that you do certain things differently. The Character Style and Core Differences Analysis will ease communication and prevent conflict, resentments and judgements about your differences.

The Art of Loving Communication: Being able to identify how you feel, what you need from each other and how to make specific requests will create harmony, contribute to resolving discussions quickly and allow you to communicate with respect and authenticity. This in turn will build emotional safety and trust.

The Intimate Couple: Discover how to deepen your intimate connection. Right after emotional trust and safety, communication is everything in the bedroom. In this case we will focus on how to be more attuned to your own body and to each other’s sexual energy and how to move that energy thru your body for maximum pleasure.

Growing your family: Develop a mission statement for you today as a couple and for you tomorrow as a family. Create awareness around potential areas of conflict connected to growing your family. (if you are combining already existing families, receive tips regarding harmonious co-parenting of step children)

The past that is part of the present: (optional) Address issues such as ex-spouses, ex-in-laws, financial problems stemming from divorce and emotional baggage from a failed marriage or previous long-term relationship.

Pre-Marital Counselling and Couples Counselling Before Marriage

In this moment, your relationship may seem almost perfect. Differences or issues that have come up seem resolvable and pale in comparison to the love you share.

If you are getting remarried, you may feel that you have learned from past mistakes and are now well equipped to create a lasting and happy relationship.

This is the place where most couples start; filled with hope and conviction to have a successful marriage.
Yet according to statistics Canada, 4 out of 10 first marriages end in divorce. Approximately 40% of all marriages end in divorce and that does not take into account the falling apart of other long-term committed relationships.

Relationship breakdown and divorce is costly on every level.

Here are a few facts shared by Statistics Canada:

Divorced or separated women have the lowest income replacement rates

Children of divorce are more likely to struggle with emotional, behavioral,

social and academic problems.

Marital dissolution is associated with subsequent depression with men being more at risk of experiencing depression than women

Failure of your first marriage may set the stage for the second. One in five of Canadians who remarried had left their second spouse within an average of 7.6 years.